WTF does this email have to do with the subject???? On 07/30/2014 03:03 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Oh, boy. Now I have to rant on Linux and RedHat after being so happy with > them for much longer than a decade. OK, the first thing I have to admit: > I'm ignorant person. Please teach something... > > Now questions: > > 1. How often do you reboot your Linux servers? (every about 45 days there > is either kernel or glibc update. I remember somewhere about RedHat 5 - > RedHat 7 machines having uptime about 2 years) > > 2. All major Linux distributions either have switched to systemd or plan > to do so in next release... I prefer system V init. I don't like something > big handling everything when there is no reason to. > > And the list can go on... > > But there are changes I really like (to keep the balance...). Such as > switching to XFS as to default fs! And BTW, I was extremely happy I went > with RedHat/CentOS when my debian friend sysadmin was re-creating all keys > and certificates (and rebuilding systems) after known random number > generator flop debian had... > > So, please, teach me something: how do I build enterprise level server > based CentOS 7 which I'll be able to run 1-2 years without reboot (I did > apologize already for being ignorant person ;-) > > Thanks. > Valeri > > On Wed, July 30, 2014 2:13 pm, Always Learning wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 09:07 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >>> ..... And even though I'm using CentOS on all workstations in the > Department and on several older servers (introduction and philosophy of > RHEL 7 made it clear that new servers will definitely be not CentOS 7, > - >>> FreeBSD most likely), .... >> >> >> May I ask why your servers are leaving the Red Hat environment? >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Paul. >> England, EU. >> >> Centos, Exim, Apache, Libre Office. >> Linux is the future. Micro$oft is the past. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20140730/37d19559/attachment-0004.sig>